Lake Mary Transfers Land To Dot For Road

June 28, 1985|By Lynn Yoffee of The Sentinel Staff

LAKE MARY — The city commission Thursday adopted a resolution that will transfer a parcel of land to the city from the state Department of Transportation so that an access road can be completed to the future site of WOFL-Channel 35.

City attorney Robert Petree said WOFL is set to close today on the purchase of a 5-acre site where it will relocate studios on Skyline Road, south of the Interstate 4 exchange.

When the interstate was completed, a parcel of condemned land less than one-half an acre was left unused by the state. Because it was never handed over to Lake Mary when the city incorporated, the formality was required by DOT before WOFL could complete its purchase.

The commission gave final approval June 6 to the independent station's preliminary site plan. Station spokesman Tom Meeks said at that time that WOFL, owned by Meridith Broadcasting Group of Iowa, had outgrown its location on South Orange Blossom Trail.

An independent commercial station, WOFL has not announced any changes in format with its plans to move.